{"product_id":"a-shadow-intelligence-9780349142968","title":"A Shadow Intelligence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e''\u003c\/i\u003eOliver Harris is always pure quality and I''m loving the hell out of his foray into the contemporary spy novel'' Ian Rankin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Scary if true, or even half true'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e star pick\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a dark side to MI6 that needs men like Elliot Kane - mercurial, inquisitive, free floating. He''s spent fifteen years managing events overseas that never make the papers, deniable and deeply effective. Kane is a ghost in his own life, picking up and dropping personalities as each new cover story comes into play. But when a woman he loves, Joanna Lake, vanishes without a trace in Kazakhstan, he is forced centre stage. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawn ever deeper into a realm of deception, Kane moves from merely infiltrating events to steering them. He''s used to a new mode of hybrid psychological warfare - but snowbound Kazakhstan presents unique challenges. Poised between China, Russia and the West, dictatorship and democracy, state intelligence and an increasingly pow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElliot Kane needs his wits about him to keep track of his own identities and those of fellow MI6 agent Joanna, who he's looking for in Kazakhstan. The binary simplicity of the Cold War has been replaced by a geopolitical Rubik's cube of corruption, nationalism, oil money and internet deceit.\u003cb\u003e Tremendous evocation of modern Kazakhstan and the contemporary intelligence landscape. Scary if true, or even half true.\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times Crime Club, star pick *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharp writing and provocative content\u003c\/b\u003e * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElliott Kane is an unusually thoughtful spy\u003c\/b\u003e... As much a thinker as a doer, \u003cb\u003eKane has much in common with le \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarré's Jerry Westerby\u003c\/b\u003e or Lionel Davidson's Johnny Porter, a plausibly multi-faceted old school operator with the skills - physical, psychological, intellectual - to negotiate the geopolitical faultlines of central Asia as Russia and China square up over Kazahstan's untapped oil reserve * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eA Middle East specialist, flies to Astana in Kazakhstan to search for his former colleague and lover Joanna, and gets caught up in the jostling for power, deals and intelligence in a city portrayed as becoming a 21st-century mecca for spooks . . . \u003cb\u003eClassier writing, fresher characters, original setting, a real sense of insider lore (on both spycraft and geopolitics)\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA splendid thriller with new perspectives on places and the distinctly unclean side of the great game of espionage * Crime Time (Blog) *\u003cbr\u003eA masterful entry into spy fiction. This may be the deepest a contemporary spy novel has penetrated the cold new world of dark web intelligence...\u003cb\u003eAn absorbing, superbly written novel likely to stand as one of the best spy novels of the year\u003c\/b\u003e * Kirkus Starred Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping, fast-moving and intelligent novel from new spy fiction star Oliver Harris\u003c\/b\u003e which will leave readers wanting a lot more Elliot Kane adventures * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003eElliot Kane is highly-trained MI6 spook. So highly-trained that he's pretty much forgotten who the hell he really is after years of false identities and subterfuge...\u003cb\u003eIn a deadly world of deception by just about every nasty state, and that includes his own, he's truly up against it in this complex thriller that keeps you on your toes throughout\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Sport, four stars *\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eintelligent and thoroughly \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eresearched \u003c\/b\u003espy-procedural giving \u003cb\u003erazor-sharp insight\u003c\/b\u003e into the particular challenges of 21st-century espionage * Big Issue *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA twisting spiral of lies and corruption\u003c\/b\u003e, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London and \u003cb\u003ea beguiling bastard of a hero\u003c\/b\u003e * Val McDermid, praise for The Hollow Man *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884016021847,"sku":"9780349142968","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349142968.jpg?v=1722530050","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-shadow-intelligence-9780349142968","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}